Occupational Health and Rehabilitation: New Approaches for Maintaining Work Ability in the Workplace

Sustaining a healthy and productive work environment for employees with health issues and work disabilities or those returning to work after sick leave may present a challenge to employers. This publication offers unique insights into occupational health and rehabilitation, covering international perspectives as well as a variety of health-related disciplines.
Policymakers, employers, employees, researchers and students will find new approaches to questions of how to maintain work ability and health in the workplace: Which motives influence strategic planning in the healthcare and employment sector? How can the return of employees after sick leave be facilitated? How best to implement innovations while keeping the workplace safe and healthy? And how does occupational rehabilitation benefit from evidence-based knowledge transfer?

Contents

• Work Ability and Work Disability

• Return to Work

• Work and Health
• Work and Innovation
The Editors

Thomas Johansen is a doctor of psychology and a senior researcher at the Norwegian National Advisory Unit on Occupational Rehabilitation, Rauland, Norway. He conducts research on cognitive psychology and occupational rehabilitation focusing on cognitive and emotional functioning, work ability, return to work self-efficacy and return to work measures.

Winand H. Dittrich is a professor of international management, especially behavioral economics, at FOM University of Applied Sciences, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, as well as director of the FOM Competence Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Behavioral Economics (KCI). He is Associate Editor of the journal Disability, Rehabilitation, and Inclusion (specialty section of Frontiers in Rehabilitation Sciences).